I was taken aback just a bit when getting off the A train at Canal Street recently. It happens to be one of those stops that exits into a building…

I recently walked/bicycled the length of the Rockaway Peninsula boardwalk. It cones in two separate sections: the boardwalk at Riis Park and beach, and the eastern section, formally called Ocean…

I recently walked (and biked the final mile or so) of the Rockaway peninsula boardwalk. Like a wraith, the former Hotel Del Mar appears at the west end of the…

Like most older cities, Philadelphia has done a good job rooting out and eradicating older cast-iron or wrought-iron lampposts, but here’s one it hasn’t found, perhaps the last dinosaur of…

I have found some slides of eastern Queens scenes circa 1960 or so, the dawn of the modern age in Queens. This is a cluster of attached houses on 103rd…

One day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…

New York City’s oldest extant hotel building is hiding in plain sight at the busy corner of West Broadway and Chambers in Tribeca. Recently redubbed as a luxury hotel called…

There’s a grand old brick building at 74 East 4th Street in the East Village, midblock between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. Since 1967 home to La Mama Experimental Theatre, the building went…

This is one of a pair of painted ads that appear on a brick building off Vernon Boulevard between 45th Road and 46th Avenue; this is the one on 46th.…

I have mentioned the Emil Talamini Real Estate office painted sign on the side of the handsome Villager apartment building at 450 6th Avenue, between West 10th and 11th, before. I…

Now and then I run across a historic item in NYC I had no idea even existed. With permission, I’m reprinting an item that appeared on the Pat Salmon Historic…

I was staggering around in SoHo a few summers ago in the dead dog 85-degree, 75 dewpoint heat down Prince Street. I had just gotten out of a job interview…